Tom Demarco, et. al, covered this in, "Peopleware"
You need to figure out what benefits you bring to your company vs. what costs your company would bear w/o you.
If you have the time, read "Peopleware." (it's not a very long read) If not, figure out what it would cost to outsource you. Keep in mind that a lot of outsourced support ends up under "capital or recurring expenditures" rather than "personnel costs."
In our industry, it seems that on the average of 6-8 years, some bean-counter in the company says, "we're an XYZ-company, not a communications/high-tech/software/ technology company." Then, cut-backs start, out-sourcing starts, costs soar and after a very painful 4-6 years, they start hiring people back to run the soft underside of the company.
Yeah, they chained all of them down with those coated cables.
This was allegedly to prevent people from "borrowing" them, but everyone knows that it was because Dan the sales-guy (moron) tried to smash the keyboard over the monitor because he couldn't figure out that the printer was out of paper.
Dan nearly put out a VP's good eye with his backswing.
Or my job. Same thing - after I realized two things: 1)the job really wasn't worth the hassle - we weren't an "IT company" so there was never going to be a basis for treating IT people as more than throw-away staff and, 2) it wasn't my dad yelling at me.
Actually, the second realization led to the first. It really didn't matter that someone decided that his bad day/attitude was an excuse to be disappointed *in me* (when I'd done my best to overcome the weather, the carriers, the infrastructure, the users, etc.), I'd done my best and my father would've been okay with that. I'm still in the industry, doing a good job (if I do say so myself) and things are good.
I must agree with you. The first 50% of the article is written with a literal or understood, "I." He talks about how he did this, read this, spoke to someone... Then, he sort of gets to the idea of the title... Not earthshaking, not revealing, not really anything.
If he's trying to convince me that, "The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today," he's a long way off.
I agree. He should teach his kids something about security. Strong passwords are a good start as long as there are no PostItNotes(tm) handy.
However, going to the trouble of issuing smartcards is not that helpful, because of the expense and issues of maintenance.
Where the heck does an average dude buy smartcards and software to do single computer authentication anyway - all the solutions I've seen are for *domain* authentication.
I have this mental image of him trying to sneak up on the "enemy" to get that thing within 4 feet of them and then trying to get on the side of them away from the sun... "Behold the terrible power of the SUN! Hold still, please!"
'The goal is to blast a big hole in the comet and check out what's preserved inside.'
Won't the impact change the makeup/properties of what *was* preserved inside? If nothing else, it's going to have a higher than normal copper content (and some bits of plastic from that CD).
On the other hand, it does sound like fun. I *love* blowing stuff up!!!
Now, that "block all executables" setting that I can't turn find or off in Outlook will prevent terrorists from exchanging secret messages embedded in trojan executables that are attached to emails purporting to be great pornography!
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Tom Demarco, et. al, covered this in, "Peopleware"
You need to figure out what benefits you bring to your company vs. what costs
your company would bear w/o you.
If you have the time, read "Peopleware." (it's not a very long read) If not, figure out what it would cost to outsource you. Keep in mind that a lot of outsourced support ends up under "capital or recurring expenditures" rather than "personnel costs."
In our industry, it seems that on the average of 6-8 years, some bean-counter in the company says, "we're an XYZ-company, not a communications/high-tech/software/ technology company." Then, cut-backs start, out-sourcing starts, costs soar and after a very painful 4-6 years, they start hiring people back to run the soft underside of the company.
Yeah, they chained all of them down with those coated cables.
This was allegedly to prevent people from "borrowing" them, but everyone knows that it was because Dan the sales-guy (moron) tried to smash the keyboard over the monitor because he couldn't figure out that the printer was out of paper.
Dan nearly put out a VP's good eye with his backswing.
Or my job. Same thing - after I realized two things:
1)the job really wasn't worth the hassle - we weren't an "IT company" so there was never going to be a basis for treating IT people as more than throw-away staff and,
2) it wasn't my dad yelling at me.
Actually, the second realization led to the first. It really didn't matter that someone decided that his bad day/attitude was an excuse to be disappointed *in me* (when I'd done my best to overcome the weather, the carriers, the infrastructure, the users, etc.), I'd done my best and my father would've been okay with that. I'm still in the industry, doing a good job (if I do say so myself) and things are good.
Sorry this is OT - but that's gotta be the greatest quote I've heard all year:
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"Fusion is one bummer after another."
I'm gonna use that as a
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- All ads. period.
If I want something, I know how to look for it. If I can't find it, oh well...
If someone has to *tell me* that I need something, do I really need it?
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How many BogoMips is that?
Or email. Surely they've seen my resume' on Monster.com...
I must agree with you. The first 50% of the article is written with a literal or understood, "I." He talks about how he did this, read this, spoke to someone... Then, he sort of gets to the idea of the title... Not earthshaking, not revealing, not really anything.
If he's trying to convince me that, "The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today," he's a long way off.
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I saw one once - it was big and red and did all the connecting for an entire video conferencing system. The big cheese was impressed.
No one told him it stood for "Push Here, Dummy"
Hey! That kinda looks like a black obelisk... On its way to earth...
(okay it's five and a half years late - probably due to budget cuts, orbital mechanics, orbital mechanics unions, etc.)
Somewhere in that company, an accounting flonk or HR weasel was wringing his hands with glee after finding that "cost savings" within a 4 week window.
I agree. He should teach his kids something about security. Strong passwords are a good start as long as there are no PostItNotes(tm) handy.
However, going to the trouble of issuing smartcards is not that helpful, because of the expense and issues of maintenance.
Where the heck does an average dude buy smartcards and software to do single computer authentication anyway - all the solutions I've seen are for *domain* authentication.
Considering the crap that they've put out over the last 5 years, I don't think CA should be criticizing other people's work as fat and bloated.
And, in related news, AT&T is *now offering* (dramatic pause)
25 MEGABYTES of email storage!!!
sheesh...
I have this mental image of him trying to sneak up on the "enemy" to get that thing within 4 feet of them and then trying to get on the side of them away from the sun...
"Behold the terrible power of the SUN! Hold still, please!"
(sung to tune of "Duke of Earl")
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URL,
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URL,
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URL,
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of URL....
'The goal is to blast a big hole in the comet and check out what's preserved inside.'
Won't the impact change the makeup/properties of what *was* preserved inside? If nothing else, it's going to have a higher than normal copper content (and some bits of plastic from that CD).
On the other hand, it does sound like fun. I *love* blowing stuff up!!!
Okay - I have to admit the first person I thought of was Linda Lovelace. But she was a hardware specialist...
*I'm* number 21. I'm sure of it...
"while Sprint appeals to families and teens."
More like Sprint is *tolerated* by families and teens. At least it's cheap.
Now, that "block all executables" setting that I can't turn find or off in Outlook will prevent terrorists from exchanging secret messages embedded in trojan executables that are attached to emails purporting to be great pornography!
It's not an annoyance; it's a *feature*!
gave you WEP for 802.11b...
Remember, standards are usually *compromises* between several factions - most of whom have better, albeit *proprietary* solutions.